This week's Medicare updates include the 2018 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) and Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC) Payment System proposed rule; the 2018 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) and Other Revisions to Part B / the Medicare Shared Savings Program Requirements and Medicare Diabetes Prevention Program proposed rule; the Federal Healthcare Fraud Takedown; and more!
This week's Medicare updates include a revision to State of Operations Manual (SOM) Appendix PP for phase 2; suppression of G9678 Oncology care model monthly enhanced Oncology services; an OIG report on Part D plans; and more!
This week's Medicare updates include phase 2 of implementing FISS updates to accommodate section 603 of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015; new effective dates for Hepatitis B Virus screening programs; revisions to the End-Stage Renal Disease Prospective Payment System 2018 Proposed Rule; and more!
As CMS and third-party payers have looked for ways to treat patients in the outpatient setting and reduce inpatient volumes, CMS has used the 2-midnight rule, in addition to other methods, to treat patients as outpatients or in observation whenever possible.
Whether it is the CPT Manual or Chapter 12 of the Medicare Claims Processing Manual, the definition of a “new patient” is the same for physicians and nonphysician practitioners billing. But that doesn't mean coding and billing for E/M services is clear cut.
The display copy of the Quality Payment Program proposed rule was released in June, and you can think of this rule as a companion to the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule that typically comes out with the OPPS rule. That means both rules need to be read, understood, and, ideally, commented on by providers.
